Round 1: Tossup 18

These people captured a medicine bundle called the Tai-me in an 1833 war marked in their enemy’s calendar as “The Summer That They Cut Off Their Heads.” Both Thomas Jefferson and George Catlin wrote of the great height of these (15[1])“children of the middle waters,” whose animating spirit titles John Joseph Mathews’ book Wah’Kon-Tah. Beginning in the 18th century, these people expanded under several leaders named Pawhuska. (15[1])Before the advent of barbed wire, western settlers would plant hedges of a mock (*) orange named for these people. William Hale had a member of this nation named Mollie Kyle poisoned when they were known as the “richest people (10[1])in the world.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the book Killers of the Flower Moon discusses members of what nation who were killed for their oil headrights in an Oklahoma county? ■END■

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